Category: Book reviews
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Top Ten Reasons to Switch to my ConfessionsOfACreative Substack Site…
10. I’ll be phasing out this WordPress site. 9. You will continue to receive my essays about Writing, Wandering and Wondering. It’s easy, click here. 8. Subscribers will have free access to THE ART COLONY, my first novel, about a young artist who is struggling to make her way in 1970s Galveston where it is not…
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Friday…
I recently read Friday, by Michel Tournier, translated from French by Norman Denny. It is a retelling of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, in part seen through the lens of Friday. It was a fun read, at times disastrous or shocking yet leaning to the philosophical. According to Tournier, Crusoe was desperate for a way to log…
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Beyond My Reach…
Fun fact: the span of your outstretched arms is approximately equal to your height. It’s a beautiful fact of Devine design, as illustrated by DaVinci in his Vitruvian Man. Your reach far exceeds your span. “We think in secret and it comes to pass – Our world is but our looking glass.” James Allen, 1864 –…
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Communication Bugaboos…
It is an all too common story, a rift grows between siblings, often after the death of a parent. When it happened in my own family more than 30 years ago, I was shocked. But we were all grieving. Years passed and the space between communications grew and so did the chasm between loved ones.…
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A Friday Book Scan…
Here is a Friday book scan (as compared to a full review) of “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives,” by Wayne Muller. This beautiful book, filled with poetic prose, stories and poems, reminds us that Sabbath is a commandment, not a suggestion. Our ego-driven and prideful selves believe we are beyond…
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Book Review: “On a Night Like This,” by Ellen Sussman
This first Friday of December, I offer a book review; something I plan to do on occasion here on these “Wondering” pages. I had the pleasure to meet and learn from Ellen Sussman at the recent Kauai Writers Conference and I am happy to offer these few words about one of her novels. Writers are…
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